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• 1903 Jan., 1; Stratton Cripple Creek Mining & Development Co.

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Principal Producing Cripple Creek Mines - 1898:

Name: Longfellow Mine (Bull Hill)
Owner: Longfellow Gold Mining Co.
Capital:
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Manager: W. B. Jenkins, Cripple Creek
Lessees: M. G. Baker
Description: 130-foot shaft; whim.
lessee: 400-foot shaft; 25-horse power upright boiler; 6x8 cylinder hoist.
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• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ 198
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Colorado State Mining Directory, 1898

That the late Mr. Stratton had abundant faith in the future and believed in deep mining was evidenced by the amount of work he did on Bull and other hills.
An example is that in the Longfellow shafts considerable lateral work was done.

• Internet Archive: ⊞ The Cripple Creek Times (New Year 1903)

Colorado Spring, August 4.—One of the biggest ore bodies ever opened in the Cripple Creek district has been encountered in the bottom level of the Longfellow. At a depth of 225 feet below the collar and eight feet from the shaft a vein has been encountered and opened for better than four feet. The rock averages five ounces to the ton, which is indicative of one of the biggest ore shoots of that hill.
Sinking is to be resumed as fast as possible for the extension of the big ore shoot that the Vindicator people are breaking in their eighth level adjoining, and which, if it continues to surface in the Longfellow, will yield thousands of dollars' worth of ore to the operators.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ 12
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ PROFITS, Volume 4 (April 1904-March 1905)

Longfellow.—The first shipment from the Gilpin lease of this property on Bull hill was sent out recently. It is stated that the ore averaged about $40 to the ton. At the 225-foot level the vein is six feet in width, and one man with a machine drill is breaking down more ore than the present plant can hoist in two shifts.
The property is owned by the Stratton estate.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ 173
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Mining Reporter 1904 (Jul-Dec)

Colorado Springs, Oct. 26.—Lessee Bilbert and associates, who are operating blocks of the Longfellow claim, belonging to the Stratton estate and located on Bull Hill, are sending out regular shipments of $50 ore.
The ore is being mined from a four-foot vein a short distance from the shaft in the 250-foot level. The lessees are now considering sinking the shaft another 100 feet for the purpose of obtaining additional stoping ground.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ 5
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ PROFITS, Volume 4 (April 1904-March 1905)

• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ 564
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Mining Reporter 1904 (Jul-Dec)

• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ 197
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Mining Science; Volume 58; July to December 1908

Cripple Creek—The Longfellow Nos. 1 and 2, on the Stratton estate, are again in operation after a long shut down. These mines are located on Bull hill, adjoining the Vindicator estate, below the town of Independence.
Holman & Moore, leasing on the north end of No. 2, are drifting on two veins. The shaft on the south end is being retimbered by Lessee McGraw and associates and machinery will later on be installed.

• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ 377
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ The Mining World, Vol. 29 (July-December 1908)

• Hathi Trust Digital Library; Link to Page: ⊞ xxv (ad25)
• Hathi Trust Digital Library: ⊞ Mining Science; Volume 66; July to December 1912